We're delighted to share the first names of the 2014 Denovali Swingfest Essen edition with you. You can find a good amount of confirmations further below. Five further artists will follow in the next few weeks.

The festival again takes place on 4 days (October 2nd until October 5th 2014) at the wonderful WeststadtHalle. This year's edition will feature 21 artists on the regular days and a piano pre-event with 2 artists on Thursday October 2nd. Their will as always be as long as a proper club concert (around an hour).

The TICKETS are from now on available for purchase at the Swingfest homepage and from next week on via ticketmaster.de or other ticket shops. The pricing structure looks like this:

We're pleased to inform you that the german electronic music legend OVAL will join this year's Denovali Swingfest Essen edition on day two. Further artists will follow soon. Tickets: [ www.denovali.com/swingfest ]

We're very pleased to inform you that the wonderful James Holden (uk) will perform on day three of this year's Swingfest Essen edition (Oct 2nd - 5th). He will be joined for the live set by drummer Tom Page.